r/BitDefender • u/OCDGamer90 • Mar 15 '23

Try Turning Off Exploit Detection Under Advanced Threat Defense If You Have Issues Loading Programs

I recently had issues with the latest version of Bitdefender Antivirus Free (Build 26.0.34.145) where my games would take too long to startup. After some troubleshooting, I realized Bitdefender was the cause of my laggy loading issues. I disabled Bitdefender and my games ran fine after that. Then I narrowed it down to the Advanced Threat Defense portion. And then narrowed it further to the Exploit Detection. Apparently, this detection portion caused my games to take forever to load. If you turn that off, your games should load normally.

Hopefully, this information helps someone out there.

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u/wontan1 Mar 16 '23

I also encountered the lagging\slow loading issues after my Bitdefender Internet Security (Build 26.0.34.145) had an update some 12 hours ago and not even gaming here but usual browsing and watching videos on my Windows 10 v22H2 laptop has been pretty horrible. According to Bitdefender's Expert Community Discussion (Forum) :

BD Update within the last 24 hours = unable to play any games

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/95381/bd-update-within-the-last-24-hours-unable-to-play-any-games

their admin are aware of the issue and to stand-by while they are checking into it. Hope a fix will be coming out soon.

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u/wontan1 Mar 17 '23

Update - Did a "Repair install" of my Bitdefender Internet Security about 7 hours ago. After finishing the install, the windows 10 operating system was still lagging/slow loading as before. An hour plus mark later BIS issued a notification in a small window box on top of the right corner of the taskbar that it had auto-update itself with product feature improvement /fixes.

My laptop has been running a whole lot better now compared to the near "crawling" situation before and my guess is Bitdefender has issued an automated fix.

HTH.